Hammer Project

I'm working on the second project of the semester for my sculpture class. The guidelines are to create 10 claw-toothed-hammers, using different materials. They can be made of pretty much anything, the stipulations being: no biohazards, and nothing stinky. So I can't make a hammer out of Port Salut. Or Limberger. Too bad. Our instructor specifically said not to make hammers out of blood either. ...makes me wonder...

I have three hammers almost complete. One is made out of broken redwood twigs. It looks like I would imagine the Trojan Horse, just without wheels and enemy soldiers (although being hidden, you wouldn't see them either), and a lot littler. The other is more of an assemblage. The handle is a redwood stick, which rests in the center of a window screen tube, around which grout has been grouted, as though growing up from the ground. (That doesn't have to make sense. I'll post pictures soon and you'll understand.) The similarly made head of the hammer will be perched precariously on top. The 3rd hammer is carved styrofoam, which will be an armature for Bondo.

Which leaves 7. The problem is that they are due on Tuesday, 5 days away. Which wouldn't be a problem at all, except that I just realized that I'm going to be out of town and away from the sculpture lab for 3 of those days. That gives me 2 days, not enough time. (this is how it usually goes with me, and now I'm stressing out as usual and procrastinating even more before I go into production mode)

The ideas I an considering for the remaining include: graham crackers with icing, beeswax, hair, window screen, cotton, and ????